Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
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HN · launched Apr 28, 2026 · 224 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: stargazing and astronomy weather apps · 90 launches, 15 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The app is a client dashboard aggregating freely accessible public NASA and NOAA APIs/imagery alongside standard astronomical calculation libraries for moon phases.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: NASA free moon images, ISS live HD viewing project (eol.jsc.nasa.gov/esrs/hdev/)
Concerns raised: Not available in Germany, Interpolated data vs actual data accuracy, Unclear if moon graphic is procedurally generated or API-based
Feature requests: Mark new moon and full moon on moon calendar, Show if solar ejections are directed to earth and arrival time, Full screen display for secondary monitor, Use higher framerate raw L1 data (every 12-24 seconds) instead of synoptic version
Competitors
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Attention rank: #10 of 358 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 175 days after the earliest competitor.
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